| Item ID | Title | Description | Added | Updated |
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| 1 | Kondoa Rock Art Sites | Kondoa Irangi Rock Paintings are located between Singida and Irangi Hills in Kondoa Irangi village and other rock painting is located at Kolo village in Dodoma. The rock paintings are a series of ancient paintings on rockshelter walls in central Tanzania. The images represent both hunter-gatherers and agro-pastoralist ways of life, depicting the changing lifestyles over the past two thousand years. The number of rock art sites in the Kondoa area is approximated about 450. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2006 because of its impressive collection of rock art. The sites are located on the steep eastern slopes of the Masai escarpment bordering the Great Rift Valley. These sites are used for rituals practices. | Wednesday 13th of November 2019 04:34:41 PM | Monday 28th of February 2022 09:45:48 AM |
| 2 | Laetoli Foot Prints | A paleontological site found within Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority, Tanzania at the southern edge of the Serengeti Plain. It provides a long sequence of Plio-Pleistocene, mostly volcano-sedimentary, deposits that are rich in archaeological and paleontological remains overlying Precambrian metamorphic rocks. It became known worldwide in the 1970s for stimulating discoveries, such as the holotype and other remains of Australopithecus afarensis and remarkable evidence of the earliest bipedal hominin tracks dated to 3.66 million years ago. | Wednesday 13th of November 2019 04:35:44 PM | Wednesday 23rd of June 2021 11:21:10 AM |
| 5 | Olduvai Zinj Site | A place where skull of Zinjanthropus Boisei was discovered by Mary Leakey on 17th July 1959 | Wednesday 13th of November 2019 09:40:34 PM | Tuesday 22nd of June 2021 12:44:59 PM |
| 6 | Olduvai Zinj Skull | Paranthropus boisei or Australopithecus boisei was an early hominin, described as the largest of the genus Paranthropus. It lived in Eastern Africa during the Pleistocene epoch from about 2.4 until about 1.4 million years ago. | Wednesday 13th of November 2019 09:41:33 PM | Thursday 14th of November 2019 10:49:21 AM |
| 8 | Olduvai Gorge | Olduvai Gorge is an exceptionally rich archaeological site, preserving one of the best records of human evolution history spanning nearly two (2) million years ago. The site has yielded abundant human, animal fossils and stone artefacts preserved in well-dated stratigraphic sequence. | Wednesday 13th of November 2019 09:42:06 PM | Tuesday 22nd of June 2021 01:16:16 PM |
| 9 | Kaole ruins Bagamoyo | Kaole ruins is located about five (5) kilometers South East of Bagamoyo. The ruins, once a prosperous Arab town holds the remains of the first settlement of the Arab foreigners in Bagamoyo. Some of the structures at the site includes house ruins, water wells, two coral mosques; one being the oldest in Tanzania and the other in East Africa; and numerous Shirazi-style pillared tombs. It is believed that some of the tombs are the graves of foreigners that died there and local rulers (Diwanis) and other well-known Sheikhs who have lived along the coastal area. The ruins date back to the period between the 13th century to 16th century. Kaole Ruins declined due to the arrival of the Portuguese in the 15th century. | Thursday 14th of November 2019 12:10:29 PM | Tuesday 22nd of June 2021 01:54:55 PM |
| 10 | Bagamoyo Stone Town | A historic town with historic architecture which preserves the blending history of eighteenth and nineteenth-century cultures between foreigners and indigenous African people. The town consists of Arabic, Indian and European historic buildings ranging from administrative, storage, residential, graves, monuments and public serving as a backdrop to the East Africa’s slave trade | Thursday 14th of November 2019 01:01:18 PM | Tuesday 22nd of June 2021 02:34:03 PM |
| 11 | Bagamoyo Stone Town Map | Map of Bagamoyo Conservation area with land use plan and buffer zone. | Thursday 14th of November 2019 01:19:42 PM | Thursday 14th of November 2019 04:01:31 PM |
| 12 | Bagamoyo Roman Catholic Church | Historic site with historic buildings, the site was established by Holly Ghost Fathers Missionaries in 1868 as the first missionary station along the interior of East African coast. It is from here whereby Christianity was established, consolidated and developed to the rest of the hinder lands. established first mission in German East Africa in 1868. the site along with the Bagamoyo historical town was declared as National conservation area on 1st July 1983 given the Government Notice Number 93. | Thursday 14th of November 2019 01:43:57 PM | Tuesday 22nd of June 2021 10:19:36 AM |
| 13 | First Church Tower | Tower of the first Roman Catholic Church in East Africa (German East Africa) built from 1868 - 1870s. In 1874 the body of Dr. Livingstone was laid in this tower after his death in Zambia for the malaria, and the tower was named after him (Dr. Livingstone Tower) | Thursday 14th of November 2019 04:32:44 PM | Saturday 16th of November 2019 06:11:29 PM |
| 15 | Kunduchi Ruins | Swahili site with 16th century Mosque and Tombs dates 18th - 19th Century all built by coral stones, lime mortal and mangrove pole. Chinese porcelains still intact in some tombs. | Friday 15th of November 2019 02:14:50 PM | Tuesday 22nd of June 2021 11:29:26 AM |
| 16 | Kolo Rock Painting | Kolo painting of 3 figures in headdresses | Friday 15th of November 2019 02:42:29 PM | Saturday 13th of February 2021 06:16:05 AM |
| 17 | Kunduchi Ruins | Tombs built with coral stones and lime mortal | Friday 15th of November 2019 02:43:00 PM | Tuesday 22nd of June 2021 12:21:38 PM |
| 18 | Livingstone Memorial Site | Historic site with memorials of Dr. David Livingstone 19th Century exploration in Africa and Tanzania. | Friday 15th of November 2019 03:13:53 PM | Friday 15th of November 2019 04:22:45 PM |
| 19 | Dr. Livingstone Memorial Monument | Memorial Monument built by the Government of Tanganyika Territory and the Royal Geographical Society donated bronze plate in 1927. It was the same place by then with a mango tree where Henry M. Stanley met Dr. David Livingstone on 10th November 1871 | Friday 15th of November 2019 04:28:42 PM | Tuesday 22nd of June 2021 01:21:14 PM |
| 20 | Dr. Livingstone’s Tembe | Historic building constructed in 1857 featured with flat roof and deep maroon color. Used as Livingstone residence house in 1871 and later Henry Stanley for three months. Currently operates as Memorial Museum of Dr. David Livingstone and with some collection of 19th Century Slave and Ivory Trade. | Saturday 16th of November 2019 02:57:48 PM | Tuesday 22nd of June 2021 12:36:01 PM |
| 21 | Dr. Livingstone’s Tembe | Photo of Livingstone memorial Tembe | Saturday 16th of November 2019 06:02:39 PM | Saturday 16th of November 2019 06:02:39 PM |
| 22 | Dr. Livingstone’s Tembe | Photo of Livingstone memorial Tembe | Saturday 16th of November 2019 06:10:22 PM | Saturday 16th of November 2019 06:10:22 PM |
| 23 | Katuruka Heritage Site | This site preserves the oldest-known iron-smelting furnace in east, central and southern Africa from 500 BC.The site itself is essentially with old bricks and shrines to King Rugomora dates between 1650–1675 AD | Saturday 16th of November 2019 07:14:11 PM | Tuesday 22nd of June 2021 10:05:15 AM |
| 27 | Amboni Caves | The Caves are the most extensive limestone caves in East Africa and located 8 km north of Tanga off the Tanga-Mombasa road. The caves were formed about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic age. They covers an area of 234 km² which is said to under water over 20 million years ago. | Saturday 16th of November 2019 11:02:55 PM | Wednesday 23rd of June 2021 12:50:44 PM |
| 28 | Mikindani Old Town Conservation Area | Mikindani is the most fascinating old town in southern Tanzania with winding streets and interesting blend of thatched mud houses and coral stones influenced by both Swahili and foreign architectures. Mikindani was the home for traders dating back to 9th century and has seen influences from Arab, Portugal, Asians, Germany and UK resulting in exotic mix of multicultural traditions, architecture, language and cuisine. | Sunday 17th of November 2019 12:20:24 AM | Tuesday 22nd of June 2021 12:50:29 PM |
| 29 | Kalenga Museum | Kalenga museum is about 15km from Iringa on the road to Ruaha National Park. This tiny museum in nearby Kalenga – the former Hehe capital – contains the skull, personal effects and other relics of Chief Mkwawa. It was here that he committed suicide rather than succumb to the German forces. Chief Mkwawa's skull was returned back to Tanzania from German on 9th July 1951. His skull was returned back from Germany on 9th July 1951. | Monday 18th of November 2019 03:22:54 PM | Tuesday 22nd of June 2021 01:06:03 PM |
| 31 | Ruins of Kilwa KIsiwani and Songo Mnara | Since 14th to 15th century, Kilwa was the centre in the southern coast controlling the maritime trade routes to the ancient world, traders, merchants and scholars travelled from middle east, India and Europe, supplied the wealth coming from trade with commodities like ivory, resins, ambergris, wax, rhinoceros horn, skins and tortoiseshell. The ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara were inscribed on the World Heritage list in 1981 Under UNESCO criteria III. | Tuesday 19th of November 2019 10:30:01 AM | Tuesday 22nd of June 2021 01:17:29 PM |
| 32 | Zinjanthropus Boisei Skull | A skull of Zinjanthropus Boisei discovered at Olduvai Gorge in 1959 by Mary Luis Leakey. | Tuesday 19th of November 2019 11:48:55 AM | Tuesday 22nd of June 2021 01:22:55 PM |
| 35 | Kilwa Gereza (Fort) | Kilwa Gereza (Fort) found at the shoes of Kilwa Kisiwani, fist constructed by the Portuguese in 15000 and later by the Omans.l | Wednesday 20th of November 2019 12:33:36 PM | Monday 11th of January 2021 10:54:27 AM |
| 36 | Kilwa Great Mosque | Kilwa Kisiwani Great Mosque first built around 10th Century and being extended continuously at 11th, 12th and 13th centuries | Wednesday 20th of November 2019 02:47:54 PM | Tuesday 12th of January 2021 12:09:14 PM |
| 37 | Husuni Kubwa (Great Palace) | A 3D showing ruin of the 14th century Great Palace (Husuni Kubwa) found on shores of Kilwa Kisiwani built by Sultan al-Hasan bin Sulaiman. It was built by blocks of coral stones. Features that can be seen today includes court, rooms, swimming pool and auction place for goods like ivory, gold and copper. | Wednesday 20th of November 2019 04:00:54 PM | Wednesday 23rd of June 2021 01:22:23 PM |
| 44 | Sandawe Rock Painting | Sandawe painting of an Antelope facing left at the main Kolo Site | Thursday 21st of November 2019 02:12:56 AM | Thursday 21st of November 2019 10:31:20 AM |
| 54 | Kilwa | 3D features and collections, structures and parts of Kilwa. | Monday 11th of January 2021 10:51:58 AM | Monday 07th of July 2025 03:35:23 PM |
| 55 | Bagamoyo | 3D features of Ngalawa, Old Fort and Old Boma from Bagamoyo | Monday 11th of January 2021 11:11:18 AM | Monday 07th of July 2025 03:36:34 PM |
| 56 | Ngalawa on Bagamoyo beach, Tanzania | The ngalawa or "ungalawa" is a traditional, double-outrigger canoe of the Swahili people on the Tanzanian coast. It is used for short-distance transport of goods or people, as well as fishing. | Monday 11th of January 2021 11:23:54 AM | Wednesday 23rd of June 2021 09:55:28 AM |
| 57 | Old Fort, Bagamoyo, Tanzania | The Old Fort in Bagamoyo, Tanzania is one of the historic building built by an Arab trader; Abdallah Sulleiman, during the 1860s. By then, it was a stand-alone two-storey building in Bagamoyo and continue to be used as a residential house until the 1880s. Between 1880 and 1919, the Old Fort was used by the Germans to serve as a military base. From 1920 to 1974, both the British colonial government and the independent Tanganyika/Tanzania government used the building as a prison. Between 1974 and the end of the 1980s or early 1990s, the Old Fort was used as a police station and then used as a hostel for conservation students until 1996/7. Since then to date, the building is used as a tourists’ destination as well as offices for the Antiquities Department in Bagamoyo. | Monday 11th of January 2021 11:30:02 AM | Wednesday 23rd of June 2021 10:03:29 AM |
| 58 | Boma, Bagamoyo, Tanzania | An Old Boma in Bagamoyo, situated along the central coast of Tanzania, was built by the Germans in 1895. The BOMA served as administrative headquarters for German East Africa until 1919. After the Versailles Treaty which marked the end of the German rule in Tanganyika/Tanzania, the BOMA was renamed ‘English BOMA’ and the British colonial government used it as an administrative building. After independence in 1961, the BOMA served as an office for the District Commissioner and continued to serve the same purpose until 1997 when its use stopped due to continued collapsing. Fortunately, between 2010 and 2014, the entire BOMA was renovated. | Monday 11th of January 2021 11:32:48 AM | Wednesday 23rd of June 2021 10:27:04 AM |
| 59 | Kondoa Rock Art Sites | 3d objects of Rock Art Paintings from Kondoa | Monday 11th of January 2021 11:35:59 AM | Monday 07th of July 2025 03:37:28 PM |
| 60 | Kolo 1 | Part of Kolo 1 3D model indicating flaking/spalling of the rock surface and loss of the art | Monday 11th of January 2021 11:37:37 AM | Wednesday 23rd of June 2021 10:46:55 AM |
| 61 | Kolo 2 | Kolo rock art is a cultural heritage site within Kondoa World Heritage Site. The site is located on the slopes of the Maasai escarpment that flanks the western side of the Great Rift Valley in central Tanzania in an area about 2300 km. There are dozens of caves and shelters with paintings of elongated people, animals, hunting scenes, and abstract markings. Like most hunter-gatherer paintings found in eastern and southern Africa, in general the Kondoa fine-line paintings have generally been dated being more than 2,000 years old and are said to have been done by a group of hunter-gatherers belonging to the Sandawe tribe. | Monday 11th of January 2021 11:38:31 AM | Wednesday 23rd of June 2021 09:53:24 AM |
| 64 | Isimila Stone Age Site, Tanzania | Isimila Stone Age Site is located within an erosion gulley on the Iringa plateau in Tanzania. The site has long been recognised as of international importance for understanding the behavioural complexity and plasticity of hominin ancestors following its unique artefact record consisting of thousands of handaxes - including enigmatic giant handaxes. In Tanzania : Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, University of Dar es Salaam In Scotland : University of St Andrews | Monday 11th of January 2021 11:43:10 AM | Wednesday 23rd of June 2021 10:38:19 AM |
| 68 | Isimila Stone Age Site, Tanzania Highres Section 4 | Isimila Stone Age Site is located within an erosion gulley on the Iringa plateau in Tanzania. The site has long been recognised as of international importance for understanding the behavioural complexity and plasticity of hominin ancestors following its unique artefact record consisting of thousands of handaxes - including enigmatic giant handaxes. In Tanzania : Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, University of Dar es Salaam In Scotland : University of St Andrews | Monday 11th of January 2021 11:48:16 AM | Monday 28th of February 2022 10:03:25 AM |
| 69 | Isimila Stone Age Site, Tanzania Highres Section 5 | Isimila Stone Age Site is located within an erosion gulley on the Iringa plateau in Tanzania. The site has long been recognised as of international importance for understanding the behavioural complexity and plasticity of hominin ancestors following its unique artefact record consisting of thousands of handaxes - including enigmatic giant handaxes. In Tanzania : Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, University of Dar es Salaam In Scotland : University of St Andrews | Monday 11th of January 2021 11:49:06 AM | Monday 28th of February 2022 10:05:19 AM |
| 70 | Isimila Stone Age Site, Tanzania Highres Section 6 | Isimila Stone Age Site is located within an erosion gulley on the Iringa plateau in Tanzania. The site has long been recognised as of international importance for understanding the behavioural complexity and plasticity of hominin ancestors following its unique artefact record consisting of thousands of handaxes - including enigmatic giant handaxes. In Tanzania : Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, University of Dar es Salaam In Scotland : University of St Andrews | Monday 11th of January 2021 11:50:02 AM | Monday 28th of February 2022 10:06:08 AM |
| 75 | KILWA KISIWANI CORAL | Scleractinian coral from the shore of KIlwa Kisiwani - A sample of the material used in the building of the Great Mosque, Husuni Kubwa and other stone buildings on the island. The individual coralites have an average diameter of around 6mm in this specimen. | Monday 11th of January 2021 11:59:35 AM | Wednesday 23rd of June 2021 11:06:22 AM |
| 82 | Husuni Kubwa Pool 2 | A 3D indicating a ruined pool located as part of Husuni Kubwa ruin | Monday 11th of January 2021 12:09:56 PM | Wednesday 23rd of June 2021 02:09:53 PM |
| 87 | Kilwa Kisiwani Shoreline 1 (March 2019) | A 3D indicating Kilwa coast shoreline | Monday 11th of January 2021 12:18:14 PM | Thursday 24th of June 2021 08:34:25 AM |
| 89 | Kilwa 2 | A photosphere indicating Kilwa topographical features | Monday 11th of January 2021 12:24:20 PM | Wednesday 16th of July 2025 09:50:03 AM |
| 114 | Kilwa Photosphere 1 | Tuesday 12th of January 2021 02:03:33 PM | Thursday 24th of June 2021 10:17:00 AM | |
| 115 | Kilwa Photosphere 2 | Tuesday 12th of January 2021 02:04:15 PM | Thursday 24th of June 2021 10:23:21 AM | |
| 122 | Kilwa Photosphere 3 | A photosphere indicating part of Kilwa ruins | Tuesday 12th of January 2021 03:22:12 PM | Thursday 24th of June 2021 10:19:11 AM |
| 123 | Kilwa Photosphere 4 | A photosphere indicating part of graves in Kilwa | Tuesday 12th of January 2021 03:22:58 PM | Thursday 24th of June 2021 12:39:20 PM |
| 160 | The Von Wissmann Tower, Bagamoyo | The Von Wissman Tower of Bagamoyo with 26.9 Square meter, was erected by Major Von Wissmann, a German East African Commander in 1889. It was a strategic point to control Slavery and Slave trade from the interior of Tanganyika. This was an implementation of the Berlin Conference (1884 - 1885) through which it was agreed that all colonies should stop Slave trade in their Areas of influence. | Sunday 17th of January 2021 05:32:35 AM | Monday 22nd of February 2021 02:28:34 PM |
| 182 | Kaole Old Port | It is a natural port where you can not structural remains except for mangrove vegetation. | Monday 18th of January 2021 05:32:42 PM | Monday 18th of January 2021 06:00:00 PM |
| 183 | Bagamoyo Old Custom Office | This was a custom house / Office in Bagamoyo during the 19th Century. | Monday 18th of January 2021 05:33:52 PM | Monday 18th of January 2021 06:07:17 PM |
| 349 | Kilwa Kisiwani Great Mosque | This is a Great Mosque of Kilwa Kisiwani that was built between the 13th and 14th Century AD. | Saturday 13th of February 2021 06:10:30 AM | Saturday 13th of February 2021 06:21:51 AM |
| 387 | Central Slave Route | Around 18th to 19th century Slave trade was at its peak, it is estimated between 25,000–50,000 Bantu slaves are thought to have been sold from the slave market of Zanzibar to the Somali coast annually between 18 and 19 Century. Most of the slaves were from the Majindo, Makua, Nyasa, Yao, Zaramo and Zigua ethnic groups of Tanzania, Mozambique and Malawi.Six centres have been identified along the central slave route to include Bagamoyo, Mamboya, Mpwapwa, Kilimatinde, Kwihara and Ujiji. | Tuesday 22nd of June 2021 11:41:02 AM | Tuesday 22nd of June 2021 11:41:02 AM |
| 388 | Katuruka Heritage Site | This site preserves the oldest-known iron-smelting furnace in east, central and southern Africa from 500 BC.The site itself is essentially with old bricks and shrines to King Rugomora dates between 1650–1675 AD | Tuesday 22nd of June 2021 02:39:04 PM | Tuesday 22nd of June 2021 02:39:04 PM |
| 390 | Amboni Caves | The Caves are the most extensive limestone caves in East Africa and located 8 km north of Tanga off the Tanga-Mombasa road. The caves were formed about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic age. They covers an area of 234 km² which is said to under water over 20 million years ago | Wednesday 23rd of June 2021 11:22:55 AM | Wednesday 23rd of June 2021 11:22:55 AM |